On the large iron disk, was a 先天八卦 diagram.
And the four walls corresponded to the four directions of southeast, northwest, northeast, and southwest.
In the original story, Tianzhen, Xiaohua, and others went down to the mechanism below and inspected it for a long time before they learned the decryption steps.
But Zhang Yunfeng didn't need to look at it at all, because he knew what the password was: it was the auspicious and lucky Kirin!
The Kirin was the totem beast of the Zhang family, and they worshipped it deeply.
It was evident from the Kirin tattoo on every Zhang family member.
The Kirin belonged to Earth in the Five Elements, and its corresponding trigrams were the Gen trigram (mountain) and Kun trigram (earth), both of which belonged to Earth in the Five Elements, echoing the head and tail of the Kirin.
The ancient Zhang family building belonged to Wood in the Five Elements, so aligning the Gen trigram and Kun trigram with the East's Yi Wood, they could obtain the map!
Without further ado, Zhang Yunfeng handed the torch to Xiaoge and went to the iron disk, turning it clockwise.
“Clack clack clack…”
As the iron disk turned, it emitted a series of sounds of gears turning.
Soon, Zhang Yunfeng moved the iron disk to the corresponding trigram position.
The next second, a series of sounds of gears and iron locks turning came from the mechanism below the iron disk.
Then, the wall representing the East's Yi Wood changed. Suddenly, bricks extended from the holes in the wall.
Strange patterns were carved on those bricks. Putting all the patterns together formed a complete map!
Having obtained the map, Zhang Yunfeng quickly took out paper and a pen from his backpack and copied the map on the wall.
Xiaoge held the torch to illuminate him.
The map was quite complex. It took Zhang Yunfeng almost an hour to finally copy it.
At this moment, they suddenly heard a scream from outside!
“Ah—“
From the sound, it was clearly someone from the Old Nine Gates who had entered.
Zhang Yunfeng didn't want the secret here to be known by the Old Nine Gates, so he quickly put away the copied map and moved the iron disk back to its original position.
After the iron disk returned to its original position, the bricks on the wall retracted and turned back into holes.
After doing this, the two left the stone chamber and arrived at the entrance of the passage. They found that it was indeed people from the Old Nine Gates who had entered.
It was the first group of people who were responsible for opening the way.
One of them lay on the ground motionless, with a blood wound on his neck. A chicken-crested snake, chopped in half, lay beside the man.
Upon seeing Zhang Yunfeng and the others, everyone immediately asked for their help: “He was bitten by a snake. Please save him!”
Zhang Yunfeng used his light skill, stepping on the pottery jars and flying to the entrance. This move immediately stunned everyone.
Xiaoge also used his light skill and flew over.
The arrival of two masters made everyone's tense nerves relax slightly.
After arriving here, Zhang Yunfeng crouched down to check the man's injuries and found that the bitten area had turned black.
The snake venom had spread to his body. This person was dying, about to breathe his last.
However, this was not a hopeless situation. Zhang Yunfeng could save him by using Kirin blood to expel the snake venom from his body.
But - was it necessary?
After all, he didn't know this person very well.
As he hesitated, Xiaoge, without saying a word, directly tore off the bandage wrapped around the wound, exposing the wound.
Then he squeezed out some fresh Kirin blood with force.
Seeing this, Zhang Yunfeng pried the man's mouth open, and Xiaoge dripped the Kirin blood into the man's mouth.
“Water!” Zhang Yunfeng said to the people beside him.
Someone next to him quickly handed him a water jug.
Zhang Yunfeng took the water jug and gave the man a sip.
After doing this, he re-bandaged Xiaoge's wound.
“Xiaoge is still kinder…”, Zhang Yunfeng muttered to himself.
At least, he wouldn't hesitate to save a stranger.
After swallowing the Kirin blood, the man immediately woke up and started vomiting profusely. He vomited large amounts of black and smelly liquid, which was the blood contaminated by the snake venom!
After vomiting for a while, the man vomited out the snake venom and the congested blood from his stomach. His pale face slowly regained some color.
Everyone looked at Zhang Yunfeng and the others with awe, their eyes filled with fear, as if they were looking at monsters.
The person who was saved, directly knelt down to them with a thud, kowtowing and saying:
“Two benefactors, thank you for saving my life! From now on, my life belongs to you. My name is Chen Wu.”
Zhang Yunfeng helped him up and asked curiously: “Are you a person of Chen Pi A Si’s?”
Chen Wu nodded: “He is from the same village as me. He is a few years older than me. Later, he established himself in Xiangshatian City, so I brought a few fellow villagers to join him.”
“I see…” Zhang Yunfeng nodded.
Then he told everyone: “This place is too dangerous, you can't get through. Tell the others, don't come in!”
“Yes!”
“Understood!”
“Received!”
Everyone nodded without any objection.
It was simple. Zhang Yunfeng was the leader of this tomb robbery operation.
Even the leaders of the Old Nine Gates had to listen to him, let alone these little followers? Who would dare defy his orders?
After obtaining the map, Zhang Yunfeng didn't want to stay here any longer, so he went back to the surface with everyone else.
It was over 1,000 meters high from here to the surface. Each round trip would take at least two or three hours.
When they returned to the surface, it was already evening.
The leaders of the Nine Gates immediately approached him.
Zhang Yunfeng described what they had seen and heard.
Of course, he didn't say that he had already obtained the map. He only said that he had found a strange device inside.
“It seems that the device is the thing they're looking for. It must contain extremely important clues!” Zhang Da Fo Ye said.
Only the direct descendants of the Zhang family knew about the Thousand Miles Lock of the Zhang family, even Zhang Da Fo Ye didn’t know about it.
It wasn’t that he wasn’t qualified, but that he was kicked out of the Zhang family when he was very young, otherwise he would have been able to access these core secrets.
Xiaoge, on the other hand, followed Zhang Yunfeng’s lead. If Zhang Yunfeng didn’t want to tell others the secret, Xiaoge wouldn’t tell them either.
“Besides the device, is there nothing else?” Chen Pi A Si looked at them with suspicion.
“Why don’t you go up and see for yourself? Why are you being suspicious?” Zhang Yunfeng stared at him with sharp eyes.
This Chen Pi A Si was very unpleasant to him, and he didn’t need to indulge him.
“Of course I’m going up, no one can play tricks under my nose!” Chen Pi A Si sneered.
Chen Wu, standing behind him, hurriedly said: “Boss, what he said is true, he saved my life…”
But before he could finish his sentence, Chen Pi A Si kicked him directly, sending him flying several meters away!
“Behave yourself. Is it your turn to speak here?” Chen Pi A Si’s face was gloomy.